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CHAPTER IX
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“If I have taken the common clay
In the shape of a god that was digged a clod,
The greater honour to me.”
“If thou hast taken the common clay,
And thy hands be not free
The greater shame to thee.”—The Two Potters.
He did no work of any kind for the rest of the week. Then came another Sunday. He dreaded4 and longed for the day always, but since the red-haired girl had sketched5 him there was rather more dread3 than desire in his mind.
He found that Maisie had entirely6 neglected his suggestions about line-work. She had gone off at score filled with some absurd notion for a “fancy head.” It cost Dick something to command his temper.
“Ah, but this will be a picture,—a real picture; and I know that Kami will let me send it to the Salon8. You don’t mind, do you?”
“I suppose not. But you won’t have time for the Salon.”
Maisie hesitated a little. She even felt uncomfortable.
“We’re going over to France a month sooner because of it. I shall get the idea sketched out here and work it up at Kami’s.
Dick’s heart stood still, and he came very near to being disgusted with his queen who could do no wrong. “Just when I thought I had made some headway, she goes off chasing butterflies. It’s too maddening!”
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immoral
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